Shit My Dad Says
In less than five months, Justin Halpern's Sh*t My Dad Says went from Twitter to TV. CBS picked up these funny rants as a comedy project just a month after HarperCollins acquired the book rights. All of which is interesting, but much, much less funny and outrageous than the voluble wisdom of...
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In less than five months, Justin Halpern's Sh*t My Dad Says went from Twitter to TV. CBS picked up these funny rants as a comedy project just a month after HarperCollins acquired the book rights. All of which is interesting, but much, much less funny and outrageous than the voluble wisdom of Halpern's outspoken dad. Samples: "A parent's only as good as their dumbest kid. If one wins a Nobel Prize but the other gets robbed by a hooker, you failed." "Pressure? Get married when you want. Your wedding's just one more day in my life I can't wear sweat pants."
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780330533454 (0330533452)
ASIN: 9780330533454
Publish date: 28-04-2011
Publisher: Pan Publishing
Pages no: 185
Edition language: English
I did not read this book, but I was an early-ish subscriber to his Facebook page. Care to understand the origins of Dad's peculiar form of "wisdom"? Well, he was a sharecropper´s son in the southern United States who went on to become a doctor at military research facilities. Pithy, uncompromising, ...
I wanted to read this book because I love the tv show so much. I read this book in a day. It's a fun quick read that makes you laugh out loud. Highly recommend.
Why can't the crappy CBS show be even a tiny bit as funny as this book? Not that the book made me do anything more than chuckle once or twice, but still.I marked this as non-fiction and fiction because, really, I doubt the family got together and miraculously remembered these little gems perfectly....
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